Earth
Stars and Galaxies
Cells and Organisms
Rocks
Alive, Or Is It?
100

The outermost layer of the Earth.

What is the crust?

100

Bodies made of hydrogen and helium gas.

What are stars.

100

The smallest unit needed for life.

What is a cell?

100

A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals and organic matter.

What is a rock?

100

Anything that causes a reaction or change in an organism.

What is a stimulus?

200

The center of the Earth.

What is the core?

200

Clouds of dust and gas that create the next generation of stars.

What are nebulas.

200

It is made up of one or more cells.

What is an organism?

200

A naturally formed solid matter that has crystalline structure.

What is a mineral?

200

The passing of traits from one generation to the next.

What is heredity?

300

The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core.

What is the mantle?

300

Vast groupings of stars.

What are galaxies.

300

It stores the DNA of the organelle.

What is the nucleus?

300

Rocks that form when hot, liquid rock (magma) cools.

What are igneous rocks?

300

Water, air, a place to live, and food.

What are the basic needs of every organism?

400

Large pieces of the lithosphere that move around on the Earth's surface.

What are tectonic plates?

400

The planet closest to the Sun.

What is Mercury.

400

It controls all of the life processes of the cell.

What is Nucleus?

400

Rocks whose structure, composition, and texture have changed from those of the original rock.

What are metamorphic rocks?

400

When two parents produce offspring that share characteristics of both parents.

What is sexual reproduction?

500

Vibrations that move away from an earthquake.

What are seismic waves?

500

The planet that is no longer a planet.

What is Pluto?

500

Animals, plants, and humans.

What are multicellular organisms?

500

Rocks formed when grains of rock or minerals (sediments)are buried, squeezed together, and cemented by minerals.

What are sedimentary rocks?

500

When a single parent produces offspring that is identical to the parent.

What is asexual reproduction?